IBM's Netezza division is rolling out a new analytic appliance that can analyze up to 10 petabytes of data "in a matter of minutes," the company is expected to announce Wednesday during the Enzee Universe conference in Boston.
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IT workers who need to think outside the box -- like pushing for staff to spend 10% of their time working on something other than operational tasks, according to advice at a recent CIO conference.
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Although enterprises are in the midst of migrating more machines to Microsoft's Windows 7, the aged Windows XP still accounts for nearly 6-in-10 PCs in corporations, according to a recent report by research firm Forrester.
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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- About a dozen separate legions of organized hackers have been diligently attempting for years to break into aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman to steal sensitive information, the company's chief information officer (CISO) said at a Gartner security conference here.
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Online criminals have evolved their tactics to harden their botnets against takedown using a variety of tactics, including fast-flux networks and Conficker-like dynamic domain generation. Yet, such tactics can also pinpoint when such networks are being created by bot operators, according to research from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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The past few days I've been cranking on some stories that pertain to the finance chief's role in IT decision-making. The common thread through the articles: Not only does the CFO have a broadening scope on spending, but also the chance to be a hero, and identify new areas for budget savings and revenue generation.
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WASHINGTON - When Silicon Valley's chieftains say we're entering the "post-PC era," they are not just referring to the PC. According to the post-PC theory, tablets, smartphones and other devices are also on the verge of irrelevancy.
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The former co-owner of Illinois networking vendor Global Networking Technologies was sentenced Tuesday to serve one year and one day in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to defraud a U.S. government program delivering Internet service to schools and libraries in poor areas.
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One Apple employee finally got off iCloud. The iPhone 5 may or may not look different, and may or may not show up in a couple months. Speaking of iCloud and iPhones, most of us want to get our iPhones onto the former, and Israel wants a violence-encouraging app pulled from the latter. The remainders for Tuesday, June 21, 2011 aren't that good at math.
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The Super Mario Bros. movie is almost universally considered terrible. The '93 film stands at 13% on RottenTomatoes.com, and is, according a recent interview with one of the movie's stars, Bob Hoskins, one of his biggest regrets.
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I'm not sold on , and I'm certainly skeptical of it on a smartphone-size screen. However Sprint and HTC make a great team, so I decided to keep an open mind about the . Did the EVO 3D change my opinion of 3D phones? Well, let's just say it is a very good thing that there's more to this phone than just a 3D display.
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Although the price for the Nintendo Wii hasn't been set, EB Games Australia has listed an estimate for the console at $598 in Australian dollars. Converted to American dollars, that's roughly $633.00, which is substantially more than the most expensive models of the PS3 and Xbox 360. By console, that's $200 more than a top-of-the-line Xbox 360 Kinect bundle, $200 more than a PS3 Move kit, and roughly $450 more than a new Nintendo Wii.
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Welcome to the first edition of "The Other Side of Japanese Gaming News," where I'll lead you through the entire half of the gaming net you can't read to show you all you've been missing. Some of the following come from Japan, while others just trend here. Check them out below, and keep tuning in on Tuesdays for additional doses of Japanese gaming news and culture.
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Ghanaian mobile-phone assembling company rLG Communications has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Osun State government in western Nigeria, marking the company's first step into the region's largest market.
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